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May 28, 2009, 08:18 PM | #26 | |
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Scoop as much off the top as you can, shake, and shoot.
1/3 of 1% is nothing. Quote:
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May 28, 2009, 09:49 PM | #27 |
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load and shoot as normal. if you are really concerned drop your load by a grain. the max loads of the 2 powders are about the same.
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May 28, 2009, 09:54 PM | #28 |
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I would use it. I believe Frankenmauser stated it correctly.
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May 28, 2009, 10:56 PM | #29 |
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negligible - use it !
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May 29, 2009, 12:23 AM | #30 |
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Probably should send the powder to me for quality control testing.
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May 29, 2009, 07:31 AM | #31 |
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Just blend it in and don't worry about it.
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May 29, 2009, 07:38 AM | #32 |
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I'm with Mike Irwin
If you can seewhere the different powders are, scoop out a whole lot around the contaminents (even if you waste a fair bit of good stuff) then use it, but I wold stay away from max loads, when you can get more, dump that lot
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May 29, 2009, 07:44 AM | #33 |
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Friend of mine dumped the entire contents of a powder measure in the wrong can, giving a mixture of Varget and AA2520. I found him a laboratory testing sieve that would screen out the extruded from the ball. It made a good but not perfect separation as variations in granule size left a trace of each in the other. Shot fine, though.
So the question here is do you punish yourself by throwing away some hard-to-get powder or do you take a lesson from it and go shooting? |
May 29, 2009, 10:39 AM | #34 |
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Send it to me and I'll use it.
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May 31, 2009, 12:23 PM | #35 |
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Thanks for all the replies guys. I think I'll take that advice and dilute it further. Luckily I have a friend that works in a gun shop that can still get me varget from time to time. I don't ever run max loads but i'll take my tests down to minimum. I'm going to try to separate it first but if that doesn't work i'm going to try that. I was thinking that same thing about the hopper. I've loaded varget after H335 and never had an issue. I definitely learned never to have two containers on the bench.
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May 31, 2009, 04:12 PM | #36 |
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If you are not sure what you have and or mixed the powder, Never reload with mixed powders, Toss it! Better to see the green grass from the nitrogen in the powder than be below it looking up from your grave! Do not take a chance with gun powder you could also hurt the person you are shooting next to!
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June 1, 2009, 11:38 AM | #37 |
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What happened to me.....
You will live or die on the decisions you make in life so be wise about it. I once mixed some W-231 with Unique several years ago and it may have been 10% 231. Since the maximum load for either one only differed by one grain, I mixed it thoroughly and loaded 8.0 in my .45 Colt and ended up with some of the most accurate loads ever. In your case I kinda like the sieve idea.......
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June 1, 2009, 04:03 PM | #38 |
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what to do?
Send me the powder and I will gladly conduct seversl tests and return the unused portion to you .
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June 1, 2009, 05:13 PM | #39 |
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If I lived my life by making fear-based decisions on insignificant matters like this, I couldn't sleep at night!
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June 1, 2009, 05:53 PM | #40 |
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Question for you?
Is your life or eyesight worth $20.00?
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June 1, 2009, 06:26 PM | #41 |
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If thats all you got in there and your sure of it, mix it up and shoot it, you'll never know.
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June 1, 2009, 07:11 PM | #42 | |
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Quote:
Since the two powders are nearly the same burning rate, you're NOT going to be blowing anything up! Inconsistant loads would be the only result.
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June 1, 2009, 07:26 PM | #43 |
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I'm thinking after I try to separate them I'm going to do each shell individually from a powder trickler. I thought about what snuffy was saying about it settling to the bottom. By visually inspecting each portion I can be pretty sure that I'm not endangering myself. I don't ever load to max either. If I felt like this was enough of an issue to injure myself or destroy a gun I wouldn't even consider it. I just don't see this much powder having that type of effect.
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June 2, 2009, 06:33 AM | #44 |
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I'd load and shoot. But that's just me.
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